This scenario has a group of US troops running down from the north on turn 1, as well as a company of NKPA SMGs and one of NKPA regular infantry with their leaders. I set up the initial US on board force along the north edge of the two large hill masses and one stack with a SGT and 2 US infantry on the southern 40M hill on the northeast side of the map. The historical side of this is that the US troops were in a general retreat and were followed so closely by the NKPA that the other US troops trying to hold a line ended up firing into the general mass of troops. The US starts turn 1 with an initiative of 6 and then goes to 3 for the rest of the game, but this did my US side little good, rolling a 1 for them vs a 5 for the NK. The NKPA entered the board first, which is mixed blessings, giving the US retreating force the opportunity to enter somewhere away from them. I split the retreating force with two stacks to the east of the middle, heading for the high ground, and the other stack to the west of the center. The NKPA entered with the Major leading the majority right down the road into the central town hexes, the lead stack with the T-34 single step and 2 of the SMG units with their Captain. The other 2 stacks of NKPA came in right in the middle of the fleeing US troops on the east side of the board. First shots fired by the NKPA killed two steps and demoralized one of the retreating stacks right off the bat. The US drew pretty poor leaders while the NKPA drew among the best available, and both sides took turns rolling 2s and 12s, with a death toll that added up pretty quickly, but as the NKPA started assaulting the US line, the luck changed on both sides and the board stagnated, each side losing an occasional step but mostly losing morale, leaders fleeing only to regain their composure and return to action a few turns later. The retreating US troops that survived the initial onslaught to the east managed to make it to the woods adjacent to the hill where one stack was dug in, and the western most US troops were assaulted by a stack of NKPA infantry that moved west out of the town to attack while the rest moved south to try to engage the line. The first NK loss ended up being the T-34 step to the adjacent shot from the recoilless rifle, while the US bazooka survived had no targets to engage any further. As the battle became a fixed piece fight along the US line, the NKPA losses added up just a little bit quicker than those of the US, but losing a few leaders caused further stagnation, and at the end, only 2 assaults were still going on, the rest of the NKPA and US troops hunkered down watching for another opportunity for direct fire that didn't seem to come. In the end, it was a draw, US killing 11 steps to 7 steps lost. Great little battle.

Korean War: Pusan Perimeter, scenario #41: In Front of Chinju

An interest scenario. The Americans have one force in retreat, entering the north edge of the map followed by the closing North Koreans and a second group of Americans already on the map holding the line but having difficulty firing on these mixed groups of friendly and enemy soldiers.

It was chaos from the start of the scenario until the end. One group of the retreating Americans entered the closest city a good choice while the other two stacks make a run for their secondary lines in the open terrain instead of the hills, a bad choice. The North Korean followed closely with both groups and had better success in the open terrain, not only that but they had artillery support of a total of 38 points, while the Americans had none. During the battle the NKPA rolled a 2 once and a 12 once with their artillery giving them 2 extra points of eliminated American steps and most likely a victory instead of a draw.

The NKPA get a minor victory by one point, if not for the good artillery dice rolls and the one group of Americans retreating in the open, I am pretty sure this would have been a draw. Certainly worth playing again someday to find out and an interesting situation to play.